Help using Shell to open a file in Excel

[Ian McKnight]

Hi Mark

You are quite correct - I just failed to read the dictionary entry
carefully enough!

Thanks



On 21 April 2012 10:27, Mark Schonewille
<m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Why do you want to use the shell? There is a launch command, which lets
> you launch a document with an application:
>
> launch "path/to/document.xls" with "path/to/application"
>
> --
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>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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> On 21 apr 2012, at 11:19, Ian McKnight wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a stack which produces a set of tables which I want to export to
> > excel.
> >
> > What I would like:
> > User clicks a button in LC and excel opens with the tables in place.
> >
> > What I have:
> > User clicks a button, saves the file to disc, double clicks the file on
> > disc which opens in Excel
> >
> > I can get the shell command to open excel on my machine but I don't know
> > how to get LC to open excel with the file.
> >
> >
> > Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Ian McKnight
>
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Ian McKnight

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